Capsule.



No. 691,687. Pacented lan. 2|, I902.

n. B. WlLSON.

CAPSULE.

(Application filed mi 22, 1901.)

(Mel Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT BURNS WILSON, OF WOODHAVEN, NEW YORK.

CAPSULE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 691,687, dated January 21, 1902.

Application filed March 22,1901. Serial No- 52,390. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that LROBERT BURNS WILsoN,

of Woodhaven Junction, Long Island, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Two-Compartment Receptacles and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in two-compartment receptacles, the object of the invention being to provide a neat and inexpensive device for holding medical preparations or the like, wherein two independent ingredients or preparations may be quickly stored and supported independent of each other. v v,

With this end in View my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim. 7 i

In the accompanying drawings,-Figure 1 is a view in elevation of one form of my invention. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of another form of my improvement, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of still another form.

A represents a receptacle comprising a central section or bodyl and telescoping end sections or caps 2 2. The outer ends of sections or caps 2 2 and one end of section 1 are closed, the closed end of the latter section or body constituting a partition 3, whereby the space formed by the three sections is divided into two independent compartments. With this form of receptacle the length or holding capacity of the compartments may be readily increased or decreased by simply adjusting in the desired direction the end sections or caps 2 2 upon section or body 1, whereby preparations or powders of varying quantities, ranging from the maximum to the minimum carrying capacity of the compartments, may be readily stored and separated from one another.-

To fill a receptacle of the character above described, the end section 2 covering the open end .of section or body 1 is first removed,

Fig. 2 is a View in section of the same.

from sectionl', and after the ingredient or second part of the powder has been packed therein is replaced on said section 1 and moved so as to telescope same as far as the powder contained therein will permit.

The receptacle shown in Fig. 3 consists of a. cylindrical bod y-section 4, divided into two compartments by a concavo-convex partition 5, the convexed face of said partition projecting within the larger of the two compartments, and a pair of adjustable end sections or caps 6 6 for closing the open ends ofsaid body-section 4. Instead of making the receptacle shown in Fig. 3 entirely of gelatin or celluloid it may be readily made of a combination of suitable materials-was, for example, the "body 4: may be formed of paste -board,,while the remaining parts thereof may be constructed either of gelatin, celluloid, or other translucent material.

In the construction shown in Fig.- 4 the body-section 7 is divided into two compartments by a partition 8, and in order to provide rounded edges adjacent to said partition I prefer to restrict said body-section 7, as shown at9. The open ends ofv the compart* ments formed in body 7 are closed by the removable end sections or caps 10 10, which latter have rounded ends and are of a length sufficient to enable them to telescope a short per and the remaining part in a white sheet or wrapper, and by reason of this long and continued custom the powders have become widely known as the blue and white powders, and in order to perpetuate this method of identification I color the end sections or caps covering the open end of the large compartment blue and the one covering the end of the smaller compartment white.

In cases where flavoring materials are mixed with sedlitz-powders it might be found desirable to so indicate the fact on the receptacles, which can readily be accomplished by coloring the end caps with a color indicative of the flavoring preparation employed.

Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a sedlitzpowder capsule of non -corrosive material, comprisingatube molded withanintegral partition removed a short distance from one end so as to form two compartments, one larger than the other, and a cap on each end of said tube, each cap made in asingle piece of noncorrosive material and cooperating with the tube to form extensions of the compartments therein.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- 1 ing witnesses.

ROBERT BURNS WILSON. Witnesses:

HENRY J. MACDONALD, lLILLIE WILSON. 

